US Nestsites & Cam Links

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We posted a large number of peregrine nestsites with webcams which may or may not be followed each year.
We try to include photos of the location and nestbox for each along with a link to the webcam and links to any other sites that may be of interest.

If we have missed any webcams or if there are any photos of the nestsites that you think might be appropriate, please PM me.

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San Jose City Hall
San Jose, California



San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the United States, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. It is the largest city in Northern California.  San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. City Hall was designed by Richard Meier, and opened to the public on 15 October 2005, replacing the former City Hall complex which was used from 1958 until 2005. From 1889 to 1958 the city hall was located in what is now Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San José.  The US$382 million facility has [apparently] been somewhat controversial, however the building was designed to be environmentally-friendly, making use of natural light and providing shading with a "bris soleil" on the tower.  The complex is large, with the 18-storey tower totaling 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m2) . The mayor's office is located in the top floor of the tower, with the rotunda serving as an entrance and council chambers located in the third building. (source: Wikipedia)

webcam & website link: http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSJ.htm

wiki website link: http://sanjoseperegrines.editme.com/
Yahoo discussion group:  http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SanJosePeregrines/info

Webcam a partnership between the City of San Jose & the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at Long Marine Lab, University of California Santa Cruz

 

Resident Pairs

• 2014 - (fingers crossed)
• 2013 - Fernando El Cohete & Clara
• 2012 - Fernando El Cohete & Clara
• 2011 - Esteban Colbert & Clara
• 2010 - Esteban Colbert & Clara
• 2009 - Esteban Colbert & Clara
• 2008 - Carlos & Clara --> Mercury (m), Ciela (f) & Meyye (f)
• 2008 - Carlos & Clara
• 2007 - Jose & Clara
• 2006 - Jose & Clara --> Spirit (m), Hiko (m) & Esperanza (f)

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Alliant Columbia Energy Centre
Pardeeville, Wisconsin

 
(photos:  plant from WisconsinWatch.org; chicks in nest by Rita/CMNH)

Columbia Energy Center is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Alliant Energy and Madison Gas & Electric near Pardeeville, Wisconsin.  It is apparently also one of the biggest polluters of mercury on the Great Lakes.

webcam link:  there doesn't appear to be a cam at this location

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, New York

 
(photos:  bridge from Wikipedia; nest location from the Backyard & Beyond blog)

The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed.  On May 30, 1883, six days after the opening, a rumor that the Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede, which was responsible for at least twelve people being crushed and killed. On May 17, 1884, P. T. Barnum helped to squelch doubts about the bridge's stability—while publicizing his famous circus—when one of his most famous attractions, Jumbo, led a parade of 21 elephants over the Brooklyn Bridge.  Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.

webcam link:  there is no webcam at this location

The nest was all but unreachable located some 80 feet above the roadway on the Bridge’s granite archway ledge.

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Rhodes State Office Tower
Columbus, Ohio

   
(photos: building from Wikipedia; nest ledge from Ohio DNR blog)

The James A. Rhodes State Office Tower is a 41-story, 191.72 m (629.0 ft) skyscraper at 30 East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. The Rhodes Tower was completed and occupied in 1974, and is currently the tallest building in Columbus and the fifth tallest in Ohio after Key Tower, Terminal Tower and 200 Public Square in Cleveland and Great American Tower at Queen City Square in Cincinnati.  Construction costs totaled approximately $66 million. It is named after Ohio's longest serving governor, James A. Rhodes. The building's odd shape is attributed to a last-minute decision to cap its height; originally, the building was supposed to be nearly 150 ft (46 m) taller.

webcam link: Main Cam Page

Donna Schwab's Blog: Ohio Dept of Wildlife's Columbus Peregrine Falcon Update

(funny little note about the blog - it is on a Canadian (dot ca) domain!)


Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Red Wing Grain Facility
Red Wing, Minnesota

 
(photos: elevator by J Stephen Conn/Flickr (cc); nesbox from Red Wing cam)

Red Wing Grain Elevator Dock is a United States port facility located in Red Wing, Minnesota. It went into service on January 1st, 1990.  It serves the Mississippi River, Minneapolis, MN to Mouth of Missouri River waterway and specializes in the shipment of grain; and fleeting barges.  It has a berthing distance of 800 meters meters, which is 128.6% longer than the average for all Port Facilities, Wharfs and Docks.  (source: FindTheBest.com website)

webcam link: www.rwgllc.qwestoffice.net/webcam.html

website link:  http://www.agpartners.net

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Dairyland Cooperative / 12 Mile Bluff
Alma, Wisconsin

This pair alternates between the nestbox at the Dairyland Power Cooperative Plant in Alma and a cliff-ledge on 12 Mile Bluff a short distance away from the Plant.

 
(photo: plant from Wikipedia & banding chick at 12 Mile Bluff from Dairyland Cooperative)

The Alma Station, located on the bank of the Mississippi River in Alma, Wis., first came online in 1947.  The first three units of the Alma Station ceased operations on Dec. 31, 2011. In October 2013, Dairyland announced plans to indefinitely suspend operations at Alma Station units 4 and 5 by early 2015.
more about the Alma site = http://www.dairynet.com/energy_resources/alma.pdf

webcam & website link: http://www.dairynet.com/environment/bird_cam_2014.php

This pair is notorious for not managing to evade identification despite the presence of a webcam.  Both are banded however so there is always hope.e a matter of time.  12 Mile Bluff is fortunately close enough that the camera at the nestbox can be positioned to see the birds nesting on the cliff ledge.

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Dairyland Power Cooperative Plant
Genoa, Wisconsin



Genoa Station #3 (G-3), located on the bank of the Mississippi River about 20 miles south of Dairyland Power Cooperative's La Crosse, Wis., headquarters, was completed in 1969 at a cost of $56 million.  G-3 was named simply because it was the third generating facility to be built in Genoa, Wis. (Genoa #1, now dismantled, and the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, shut down in 1987 for economic reasons, were built earlier.)  This super efficient, single unit station has a generating capacity of 379 megawatts of electricity.

webcam & website link: http://www.dairynet.com/environment/bird_cam_2014.php

This site is one of 17 Dairyland Cooperative sites that have/have had peregrines nesting on them.  

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Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Salt Lake City, Utah

 
(photos: building from J Stephen Conn/Flickr; nestbox from the Salt Lake City Peregrines facebook page)

Originally the Hotel Utah, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building was later named in honor of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is located on the corner of Main Street and South Temple in Salt Lake City.  The corner of Main Street and South Temple has long been important in Utah history. Prior to construction of the Hotel Utah in 1909-11, the general tithing office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a bishop's storehouse, and the Deseret News printing plant all were located on the site.  Work on the Second Renaissance Revival style hotel, designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Parkinson and Bergstrom, began in June 1909. Two years later, on June 9, 1911, the Hotel Utah opened for business. While the LDS Church was the primary stockholder, many Mormon and non-Mormon community and business leaders also purchased stock in the effort to provide the city with a first-class hotel.  "The largest and finest bar in the West [was built] in the basement of the Hotel" to pay off a $2M construction loan. The financing was secured by Presiding Bishop Charles W. Nibley, from New York financier Charles Baruch. But the scheme obviously required the sales of hard liquor.  The ten-story building has a concrete and steel structure and is covered with white glazed terra cotta and brick. Various additions and remodelings have occurred throughout the years, including a substantial expansion to the north and modifications to the roof-top dining facilities.  On January 3, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Hotel Utah.   The building ceased operations as a hotel in August 1987. A major remodeling and adaptive reuse project to accommodate both community and church functions was completed in 1993. Church leader Gordon B. Hinckley chose the name when he observed that there were many monuments to pioneer leader and Utah founder Brigham Young, but none to Joseph Smith.  2011 marked the celebration of 100 years since initial construction was completed on the Hotel Utah.  The peregrines nest on the roof.

webcam link:  http://wildlife.utah.gov/peregrine/ - live streaming video and two cameras

facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SLCPeregrines

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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One Capital Centre Building
10th & Main Street
Boise, Idaho

 
(photos: building by Architecture Buff/Skyscraperpage forum; nestbox from Peregrine Fund website)

One Capital Center is a high rise building in Boise, Idaho. It is located at 999 Main St. The building has 14 floors and is 206 feet tall and was completed in 1975 by Mountain Bell. From 1975 to 1978 it was the tallest building in the city of Boise and the state of Idaho, but now it is the second tallest building in Boise. Billionaire J. R. Simplot (1909-2008) had an office on the top floor of this building. In April 2009, a webcam was set up to view a pair of peregrine falcons incubating four eggs in a nest on the fourteenth floor of the One Capital Center Building. (source: Wikipedia)  Nestbox is on the northwest corner of the building on the 14th floor.  Site is coordinated by The Peregrine Fund (Boise is where their headquarters is located).

webcam link:  www.peregrinefund.org/webcam-peregrine

website link:  http://www.peregrinefund.org/index.php  (the main Peregrine Fund website)

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Biodiversity Research Institute
undisclosed lighthouse location, Maine

 
(photos: nest/nest tray by Allison)

webcam link: http://www.briloon.org/oae/webcams/peregrinecam

Its a nice website and two cams, one looking in, one looking out.  Also a blog but doesn't really track day-to-day minutiae (or at least not so far).  Nestbox has been replaced and there is now a lot less stress over the safety of the chicks-in-the-box.

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Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Building
University of Wisconsin Campus
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 
(photos: both from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Peregrine Falcons have been present on the UWM campus for several years frequently seen soaring above or perched on several of the high rise buildings on campus. In particular, much activity has been observed on the Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Building. In the fall of 2007, Greg Septon of the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Program, toured the EMS site and encouraged University officials and scientists to build and install a nest box at the site. Plans were drawn up for the box, UWM Physical Plant carpenters and other trades workers constructed and installed the nest box at a site chosen on the roof of the EMS building. Department Biological Sciences faculty and staff provide scientific observation and data reporting.

webcam link:  http://bird.biosci.uwm.edu/webcam/birdcam/

website link: https://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/biologicalsciences/falcon/

 

Resident Pairs

• 2013 - Hoffman & ? --> Linnaeus (m), Asa (m), Carver (m) & Frances (f)
• 2012 - Hoffman & ? --> Allesandra (f), Penny (f), Ellen (f) & Maria (f)
• 2011 - Hoffman & ? --> Barbara (f), Dian (f), Nettie (f) & Muriel (f)
• 2010 - Hoffman & ? --> Leopold (f), Curtis (m), Marie (f) & Lynn (f)
• 2009 - Samson & ? --> Mendel (m), Rachel (f), Rosalind (f) & Jane (f)

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Nipsco Schahfer Generating Station
Wheatfield, Indiana


(photo: plant by Ady Advantage)

Rollin M. Schahfer Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by NiSource near Wheatfield, Indiana.  Peregrines have been nesting on the Unit 14 stack since 1998.

webcam link: link has changed and url is unknown

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Market Tower
Indianapolis, Indiana

 
(photos:  building from Wikipedia; next box by WN.com; bird on box edge by Froona/CMNH)

Market Tower is a skyscraper located at the corner of Illinois and Market streets in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tower was completed in 1988 and it has 32 floors, making it the fourth-tallest building in the city. It is unknown whether the 8 spires at the top of the tower are included in the building height, which is 421 feet (128 m). Market Tower is the tallest concrete reinforced tower in the state of Indiana. It is primarily used for office space.

webcam link:  http://www.indystar.com/story/life/falcon-blog/2013/10/28/falconcam/3289199/

website/blog link: http://www.indystar.com/blog/falconblog/

Resident Pairs & Offspring:

• coming soon

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Mid-American Energy Building
Davenport, Iowa

 
(falcon photo courtesy of Mid-American Energy - Scorpio on the left, P/D on the right)

Mid-American Energy Building is a high-rise office building located in the downtown Davenport, Iowa. The building was designed by Shive-Hattery Engineers & Architects and built by Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company in 1995. It is a 9-story office building that stands on top of a six story parking ramp. The building stands 220 ft (67.06 m), and is the second tallest building in the city after the Wells Fargo Bank Building. The building is also the home to a couple of peregrine falcons. (love the last sentence - this description is from Wikipedia) 

webcam link: http://wqad.com/falcon-cam/

There doesn't appear to be a website associated with this site but the falconcam is on the WQAD falcon cam site does contain additional information.